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[ROLES FOR FRilZ BEHIND THE LINES j. Soldiers Are Taught How to Speak and Think. f [ SHOWN IN CAPTURED ORDERS Bfih, flsen Are Urged to Be "Rather CunKlning Than Courageous"?Told Not & to Liey But to Give Only Such infor9 mation as Is Known Already to Be in Possession of the Enemy. Most of the information which the opposing iorces get aoout one anorner is obtained by patrols, and by trench Braids for the purpose of bringing back prisoners, writes Paul Scott Mowrer Bin the Chicago News. In a recently captured order, the colonel commandMing the Second Bavarian infantry compplains that, most of the time, "the I' French are more cunning than we." and urges his men to be "rather cunning than courageous" when doing pal trol work. "My men," he adds, "do nooH tn show thpir raurjiFP: it is known well enough. What is needed is skillful ruses." He thereupon instructs the men how they shall behave if they have the misfortune to be taken prisoner. In this event they are advised to appear :to be sincere but stupid- They are to infnrmntirm ns thft enemv I probably already has?information concerning what troops are in the first lines, and what nnits are to the right and left. When asked how many men tfera are in his company, the prisoner fe to reply "between 100 and 200," but thav he doesn't know exactly, because some are on leave, and some are work Hing on reserve trenches. When asked concerning gnn positions he is to an?Hwer that he has heard the German ^artillery firing a great deal behind the .wlkies, bnt how is he to know where the Rgnns are? In short, he is not to lie, Jbnt to answer, for it is useless to try ?to deceive the French; they will work tie truth out of him somehow, it tney fonce catch him telling a falsehood, and Bsc begin to suspect him* Such, at |Keast, is the colonel's opinion. VB A notebook captured on a soldier of Hbbe Twenty-fourth infantry indulges in fk&mewhat bitter epigrams at the ex1t*>ense of the Prnssians, who, he says, |*iave "big months" (das grosse Maul), IHwhereas the Bavarians have "bis JBfiftts." i4Tt is thev (the Prussians) who I do the talking, but we (the Bavarians) do the fighting." Germany Picks Over Battlefield. Practically the whole German armj on the front is now being employed, off and on, at the task of ragpickin? Jthe battlefield. So short of every kind of supplies is Germany becoming and so careful and economical is the Ger HHnan organization umi lue muiuii v uu;;?horities are at present trying to save jiBpractically everything?rags of cloth^Sng, old boots, shell and cartridge lyases, iron fragments, even pieces of j?>arbed wire. These orders were first fven in July, xney were repeaieu in jptember, with the addition that even e reserve being held for the execup of counter-attacks were t? be n tiled for this work. There are also especial salvage commies which can;be called at any time eijrioit a particularly fertile field ui ISbris. Premiums are paid the men i accordance with the valufc of what hey turn in. There was difficulty ver this question at one time, as it ras found that men of the supply serv?e were stealing fresh cases of carridges and other material, and preepting it, after a mud bath, to the alvage officers for the sake of obining the small sums of money .warded; but measures have since een taken, I am told, to render this ijtd of graft difficult, if not impossiOffieers Instruct Soldiers. |?j? In order* to keep up the morale ol IfBhe German troops, which seems to be |Bq the wane, the German military aufghorities have established a special ptervice of "Wohlfahrts Offiziere," or I^Kopaganda officers. Their mission ia Ax MMAisitAnn 4- V* ?vt/\rk A. It rejJiy uu iin qucauuua wc uacui ucre to ask concerning the war, or cona-ning the resumption of business aftr the war. According to a secret docment captured by the French, these Beers at present are to advise the len to read various official publicaons and a selection of war literature, hey are to make the men understand ^e necessity of continuing the war itil the allies "have given up their leas of conquest," until Germany i reassur; d as to its economic fu? jJBpOne of these officers seems to be a jjBertain Captain Lochner, concerning Rrhose pan-German lectures in the hos|*tals the socialist papers of Mainz Uttely have been complaining. After f?&e of his lectures the captain dis fcibnted leaflets to the helpless pajiBents, which read as follows: g& "I declare to be an enemy and tralit?r to the country he who emits |?>ubts concerning onr victory; says SMablicly that Germany has wronged jfeBer enemies; declares himself publicly Jfttr the status quo ante; says he is a |BjRrtisan of a compromise with EngfKnd or a premature peace; commits |Sr approves acts of a nature to spare twir enemies and to sacrifice onr comHptriots; favors tendencies hostile to tl?e country either in the occupied re|!feins or In the Interior, or combats llffistifles pan-German tendencies; exjiPnges sympathies with citizens of countries which are not frankly our friends; d<>es not use all his iniluence, if he is in a responsible position, to stop evident abuses; exploits the war and the general need to get rich at the expense of his country and his fellow citizens, and shows weakness, cowardliness or lack of character in & responsible situation." | PAY INTERNED FOES | i ? U. S. Will Give German Army ^ i ij and Navy Officers the Salary x> jj of Their Grade. 3 German army and navy officers detained in American prison camps under the rules of war are receiving, and those taken prisoners hereafter will receive, the pay of officers of the same rank in the American army and navy. It was because of this pay that a German naval officer held in a military detention camp in the south re cently wrote to his sweetheart in Germany that he did not care how much longer the war lasted, since he was receiving so much higher pay here than in active service for Germany that he n/vf <-\nlx7 Tvrmlrt ha nhlo tn mnrrv hf>r_ HVt V41*J Tf VUAU */V MM*\/ VV * v. F but to buy a farm when peace comes. German officers and enlisted men i receive only a small fraction of the i pay of Americans of similar rank. 1 Officers of the German navy holding equal rank to that of an American ' captain will receive $4,000 a year, the 1 initial pay of an American captain of i the navy. The pay of other American ? - .4^11 . oiiicers iuiiuws. i Admiral, $13,500; rear admiral (first grade;, 58,000; rear admiral (second grade), eame as commodore, $6,000; commander, $3,500; lieutenant commander, $3,000; lieutenant. $2,400; lieutenant, junior grade, $2,000; ensign, $1,700. i The pay of officers of the American ' army follows: ei <> nnn general ! Lieutenant general 11,000 . Major general 8.000 . Brigadier general 6,000 I Colonel 4,000 Lieutenant colonel 3.500 Major 3,000 I Captain 2.400 First lieutenant 2,000 Second lieutenant 1,700 , American officers also receive additional pay for length of service. This, of course, will not go to German pris' oners. ' BIG MEN VOLUNTEER TO WORK FOR RED CROSS L ' Prominent Business and Profes; sional Men Offer Services Without Compensation. Another srroup of prominent busi ' ness and professional men have volun. teered to serve the American Red Cross in France. They will not only work during the period of the war without compensation, but will give up their private interests and pay all expenses incident to their services. Mnj. Grayson P. P. Murphy, head of the Red Cross commission to Europe, recently notified the war council of the urgent need of men of a high ...t.? ...i: ? u: i:4.^ +^1-^ (truer ot emumc uuiuijr tu ia?.c 1 charge of the branch warehouses in France. From "a port in France" Red Cross supplies are shipped to Paris and from-thence distributed by trucksand otherwise to a dozen or more branch warehouses. It is these branch '.depots-which are to be in charge of : the latest squad of volunteer business i and professional men. The list of those who have volunteered follows: Henry S. Sherman, Cleveland, O., vice president of the Standard Car ' Wheel company; Philip L. Smith, ' Short- Hills. N. .T? hanker and mem ' ber of the New York stock exchange; ! E. W. Ogden, Knoxville, Tenn., presi' dent of the Citizens' National bank; ' Johnson DeForest, New York lawyer 1 and son of Robert W. DeForest, vice 1 president of the American Red Cross; ' Knowlton Mixer, Buffalo, retired lumberman; George T. Rice, Boston, of the banking house of Bond and Good' win; Walter Morrison, Minneapolis, ( retired lumberman; C. H. Moorman, Louisville, Ky., law partner of United States Senator Beckham; Lewis M. ' Williams, Cleveland, O., of the Sher 1? IT'. II! n T\ O ' wiu? vv ixixuxiis x aui v.uujpuij.j' , . ?. Blossom, Cleveland, O., vice president of the William Bingham company, wholesale hardware; Alden Swift, Chicago, of the packing firm of Swift & company. GIRLS REPLACE MEN They Are Keeping the Pay Rolls Of a Coal Mine. Just the same as the war has affected other industries, so has it crippled ?1? 1 w uie cou.1 muusuj in uwuiiuma m urn* ing away scores of its most experienced workers who have been responsible for the industry being kept going during the last year when conditions became greatly disturbed. Girls are now playing an important part in bringing the coal industry back to normal, and every day there is a new face at some of the mines in this locality, some young girl or young woman who has seen the J _ .C J! 1 ^ _ A. ? ^ iieeu 01 aiaing ner wuuirym uie ptvoecutlon of the war. At the present time there are twenty-eight girls working in the local coal fields. No, they are not digging coal, for this is manual labor which requires more than feminine strength, but they are rolling up their sleeves and entering the offices to take the places of young men who have been called to Jhe ol'T:d. A majority of these girls are bookkeepers and stenographers, while two of are keeping time. TIP-; >.?v?vr IC I IFTFh' IlWil UWVl tJ Lii I 5.U North as Well as South Profits From Release. Quarantine Aaainst Cattle Fever Is Raised From Great Section in the South. Washington, D. C.?An order signed by Secretary of Agriculture D. F. Houston lifted on December 1 from 0o.r>20 square miles in rne Southern states the federal quarantine against movement of Southern cattle. It is of great importance to cattle raisers and dealers of Northern states, as well as those of the South. In regions infested by the cattle tick it has not been hel$ safe to import better stock for the improvement in Southern herds because cattle freshly brought in from regions where the tick is not prevalent are especially prone to sicken and die from the fever germs carried by the blood sucking parasite. 'Hie reaerai quarantine against the catt.e tick, on the other hand, has prevented the shipment of cattle from infested sections for use as stockers and feeders in free territory, and permits their shipment into free territory only under quarantine restrictions and for immediate slaughter. The release of December 1 is the largest amount of territory ever liberated at one time since the federal campaign against the cattle tick was started in 190G, and, added to 5,234 square miles freed in March and September, will make 1917 by far the greatest year so far in the annihilation of the tick. Nine Southern states benefited by the release order. The largest benefi clary was Mississippi, which was entirely freed front quarantine and opened a broad avenue of tick-free territory from the Northern states to the Gulf of Mexico. WEAR SABOTS IN PARIS. Mile. Jardy, a patriotic Parisienne, starts a new fashion by appearing in the Bois de Boulogne in sabots. The sabots are ail in wood except for the narrow patent, leather toe cap and band. JOFFRE LIKES SHORT POEMS Hero of the Marne Carries Them With Him to Read in the Train. Paris.?Talk that the Immortals may elect Marshal Joffre a member of the institute has evoked many stories of the great soldier's appreciation of liter ature. One of the best concerns a young poet who, on the eve of the marshal's departure for America, presented him with a slender sheaf of his poems. Joffre, who is ?end of souvenirs and who brought bacli hundreds from America?including cards of invitation and banquet menus?took the manuscript. Then desiring to express his appreciation, he looked at it and said: "Poems? Oh, yes, I like them." Then after a pause: "They are just the right size to slip in one's pocket to read in the train." WHITE PLAGUE FIGHT IS ON Red Cross to Care for French Women and Children in France. Paris.?The bureau of tuberculosis of the American Red Cross in Paris is conferring with the French authorities concerning the care of women and children in France affected with tuberculosis. It is expected that the American tuberculosis bureau shortly will begin work on a special institution, where it will take care of a cerf-nin nnmher of these cases. The Edith Wharton Sanitarium for Tuberculosis Patients, which is a separate institution, will be ready for patients November 15. Keeps Corn 50 Years. Hoboken, Ga.?David Carter, a veteran of the Civil war, has an ear of corn that has eight small ears. Carter piekCii up this freak ear just fifty years ago. The corn is sdll in a good state of preservation. ftfcN iij? OKI ! TRAFF1P I0V1NP nina '<sr *?iw x ??? Effective Work of Navy on the Great Lakes. I j MANY PLOTS ARE FRUSTRATED! Wheelsmen, Captured on Great Lakes j Freighter, Identified as German j Navy Officers?Two Freighters Sunk ; ;? DA^uliar Msnncp?ftommande!* t McMunn in Command of Fleet. j Hidden away in a certain little har-1 hor of the Great Lakes is a gunboat, j Its coat is battle gray; its guns peer menacingly from sponsor and barbette. It is not given to reveal the exact location of the ship. Anyhow, its captain is the distinctive feature of the craft, for Commander W. N. McMunn, N. X. V., is the man who has "kept the ore traffic moving." And keeping the ore traffic moving ! with the nation at war has been no j fanciful job. Most of the iron and j much of the copper used in the manu- j facture of armament in* this country} is produced in the lake region and j freighted in the open navigation sea- j son in lake vessels to steel mills, j Traffic in metals this season has been : more than double that of any previous j year, and exact figures not yet hav-! ing been! compiled. Many Plots Frustrated. Much has been said about the pro tection afforded steel mills and muni tions factories, but little has been j printed concerning the equally efficient! protection afforded the ore before it I reaches these industrial plants. This j is the task to which the navy depart- j ment at the opening of navigation on i the lakes last spring assigned Com' mander McMunn. It gave him more than three-score vessels ranging in size from an open-speed launch to i onn-trm mmhoats. Constant vifrilance on the part of Commander McMnnn and each of his officers and men has been the price paid to keep the barn door locked before somebody stole the horse. Commander McMunn will talk little of his experience. Announcements from Washington, however, from time to time have hinted of German plots, anti-American propaganda, I. W. W. agitation, all suppressed by this quietly effective arm of the tiavy. There are stories of wheelsmen on Great Lakes freighters who have been taken into custody by naval officers and who have been identified as officers of the German navy. There are two large lake freighters, sunk in a -1? ~ nr. nlmA??f +A most peculiar mimutu" ?u uo muiuoi tv close to navigation one of the most important lake ports. There is a report lhat certain interests in Duluth sent word to Commander McMurm that if he ever sot foot in that city he \^onld be shot and killed, and there is the verified statement that Commander McMunn replied by going to Duluth _nd ? - 1 J ~ J walking unarmed ana unaiuiuueu up and down the thoroughfares of that city. But no attempt was made to do him violence. Giood Fellow and Good Sailor. Of him one of his fellow officers re! cently said: "Just shaking hands now with Commander McMunn elves you tOe lQCfl liliiL UL' IS U junj tjWu xvt low." He is, but other naval officers tell you that he is aiso a jolly good j sailor, a jolly good fighter, ar.d a jolly i good business and they will, tell ' you also about his foresight, hindsight, energy, and good old-ifashioned I all-wool-and-a-yard-wide backbone. I Just a word of history about Com | manaer aicaiuuu ?uu, m ^ j his other duties, is assistant command; ant of the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh ! naval districts with headquarters at the Naval Training station at Great Lakes which has the task of turning ! thousands of fresh water plowboys into salt-water sailors. An engineer known nation wide, an expert in steeir ; he enlisted in the Illinois Naval militia I as an ordinary seaman in 1894. Serv' ing through the several . grades he emerged after the Spanish-American war as an ensign, and since has served in each grade until he reached the commander's rank. He holds an unlimited master's license and also a chief engineer's license of unlimited tonnage. and perhaps is more familiar vrith the Great Lakes than anv othei* skipper I operating on them. HAND-WRITTEN BIBLE Montreal Man Spent Many Years Preparing the Manuscript. ! TTnorh "Rnsspii of Notre Dame de Grace, Quebec, is the reverent possessor of what is one of the most wonderful books in the world. It is a copy of the Bible written entirely in his own hand, and, as now bound, is j not larger In size than the old-style; family Bible. It is beautifully written,! too, bearing evidence in ev>ery word! of an infinite patience and reverence, recalling the work of a medieval monk.: It is certainly a wonderful piece of cal-! [ligraphy throughout. Mr. Russell is very modest about His, achievement "No, I am not a minister," he said. "I am only an ordinary. commercial traveler?a knight of th? road?but I was brought up by godly ; parents, both of them living still ia Montreal, and I have love for the Book , of Books." Mr. Russell, who is a Presbyterian Scotsman, began his work in 1S94 and finished it on St. Andrew's day, Koveinher SO. 1916. j ? I jii|_jj_Lu_M THE I;LIST is what you want wlien you buy oranges. This is what W3 i have. Place your order now ror Xraas oranges and be satisfied. 12?14?2t. Summer Uro. Co. MOLASSES?I .arge shipment just re j ceived. New Orleans and Georgia J i Cane. Can fill your order prompt.!*.'. j 12?14?2t. Summer Bro. Co. ! _ \ ' ?? O'iE BKOOD WAKE AND HlTEsj for sale. Also several hundred bushels of Improved Cleveland Rnll Cntfnri sped selected and cullel for planting. H. H. Rikard. 12?14?2tp AXNUAL MEETING The regular annual meeting of the | share-holders of The National Bank ! of Newberry, S. C., -will be held in ' the President's office on Tuesday, Jan-1 uarv 8th. 1918, at eleven o'clock, a. J m. for the election of Directors and j such other business as may come be- j fore said meeting. T. K. Johnstone, Cashier. NOTICE OF FOTAL SETTLEMENT, j i I will make a final settlement cf the estate of W. S. Seybt in the Pro-1 bate Court for Newberry County, S. | C., on Tuesday tne 1st day of January! 1918, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon \ and will immediately thereafter as!;! for my discharge as executrix of said | i oc* iv. ALMA E. SEY'BT. Executrix. i 1917 Design i I j RED CROSS ji|3|| \ | Christmas Seal The spirit of Christmas j . helpfulness to others is in! that seal. Put it on your! ! Christmas mail j ! The seals cost one cent each. j i . . i Th e money goes to fight Tuberculosis: i in your community and to protect you : and your family against this di ease. I You must buy three times as many this year. I i War increases Tuberculosis. In the first million men examiued for ? - - ? _ _ _ _ r i ? me army over 25,000 new cas^.s or lu'.ier culosis were discovered; ihousands more will break down in the training camps | and at the front. f J . ; Help to provide proper care for thei-e boys and protection for your community gainst the spread of the disease. : j Buy ! RED CROSS | CHRISTMAS SEALS j i The sale of the Red Cross Seals in Newberry is in charge of the Bachelor Kaids. Committees of the Bachelor< Maids will call upon the people of: Newberry and offer these Red Cross j Seals for sale. i SlTSCHIIiE TO THE HERALD AN1 j ' N'KWS. ~r" ;? ? ? S An Ambition ar y/ ; 'pHE needs of ?he South are i< v, J of the Southern Railway: thc^row / ? :?ie npbuiidine of the other. ^ I J The Southern Railway asks no fav if , accorded to others. | \( I The ambition of tbe SouQieni Rail / J mnity of interest that is born of co-opci T t tie railroads; to see perfected that fair at / rnient of railroads which invite* the V - agencies; to realize that liberality of ti k> obtain the additicaal capital needed fo \ ?niarced facilities incident to the deal JL aemoet and. finally? / To take ita niche In tbe body poll A oeLcr great industries, with no more, b and equal opportaiiitiea. 3^ " The Southern Serv rSo^thejrn1^ai] I HAVE ATTRACTIVE pri es to make on cord wood, gn en or dry, for iaiir.eJiate, fall, spring or summer delivery. Be sure to see me before yoa sell. H. 0. Long11-23-tf. Silverstret, S. C, ll-27-3t. SOTIfE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. I will make a final settlement of th* estate of Lula .4. Sumn er in the Probate Court for Newberry County, 3. C., on Wednesday the 2nd day of January 1918, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and will immediately thereafter ask for my discharge as Guardian of said estate. J. W. Summer, Guardian. FldPomKor 1<l17 CHANGE'S OF SCHEDULE ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY Herewith statement showing chani?es in the Southern Pas<?enger trains at Newberry, S. C., effective November 11th, 1917 as follows: No. 15 Sou. train due at Newberry 8:4S a. m; no changes. No. IS, Sou. train due at Newberry 12:27 p. m.; 12 minutes later. No 17 Sou. train due at Newberry 2:55 p. m.; 5 minutes later. No. 16 Sou. train due at Newberry S: 25 p. m; 31 minutes later. f. X. and L. No. 55, 9:53 a. m. No. 52, 1:00 p. m^ No. 53, 3:38 p. m. i iNo. 54, 7:00 p. m. T. S. Lefler, T. A. Newberry, Nov. 6, 1917. NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the County Board o? Commissioners of Newberry County will be held at the office of the County Supervisor on Thursday, January 10, 1918. All persons holding deviands of any kind against the County, not previously presented to the Board,. are required by law to file the sam** , with the Clerk of the Eoard on or "be' fore January 1, 1918, so that the^ may be examined and ordered paid at the annual meeting, and it i3 m^de the duty by law of all persons holdins; such accounts of claims, not paid, to file them as require! in this notice. No claim against the Coun*!rr shalll be valid and payable unless thar same is presented to and filed "wIUi j t^e Conntv Board of CommissioneTa j during the fiscal year in which it is I contracted or the next thereafter;: I and a!1 not so presented am4 filed will he barred. H. C. Hollo way. Clerk, etc. .T. C. Sample. County Supervisor. rXECl'TWS SALE OF LAND , On Monday, salesday in January, 1918, tne Ttn nay, tne unuersignea a?; executor of the last will and testament of David Pcozer, deceased, tyiES | sell to t'ue highestidder therefore beI fore the court house at dewberry th* | following ltfnds of which the sai<2 , David Boozer died seized and: possessed: . ... I' All that tract of lancl in No. 9 town! shin in Newherry county, containing Eighty (83) three acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of Fred Stock A <*naa Qchum. man. irawnee vrumci, .pert and others. Terms of sale: Cash. The grain crop on the said Ian<3 for 191S is reserved by the executor with the right to harvest the same. W. W. Boozer, Executor. Dec. 6, 1918. MULES?We have mules on hand. A. O. Wise, Prosperity, S. C. 11-27-tf. ?^? . id a Record1 V* dentical with the needs y th aacccjii of ooc means \ on?no tpecial pririle?e cot JS \y^* way Company Is to see that ation between the public and 1^. . id frank policy in the manage- j J " confidence of foremmental V eatment which will enable it jf r the acquisition of better an* and for incrcajed and bcccr j tic of the Sooth tboaguie a* J' at with equal libcrue#, cqo? ^ * L es the wavS^stein^ * i